grader from michigan. jared clark is a student at royal oak high school. his documentary on pharmaceutical price gouging is titled "enough is enough." take a look. >> you do not have to talk to someone very long to figure out that they have to have this. it is not optional. >> that could lead someone to and allergic reaction which could lead to a newer from a hospital stay up to death. >> up to four people a day will die if they do not get the proper dosage of epinephrine. >> i have a lot of guys, one guy carried it with him all the time. roughly one dollar. but the price of this has gone from roughly $99 for one to more than $600 for two.

in a very short amount of time. >> do you ever feel guilty or have feelings of guilt making such a large sum of money? >> had to sit there and take a prescription to the counter for a mother whose child has suffered from anaphylactic shock and watch her have to call family members to get the money to pay for this medication. >> more people a day will die. >> $600. >> do you ever feel guilty? >> the time has come to say loudly and clearly that enough is enough. the greed of the pharmaceutical industry is killing americans and making many of the much sicker than they otherwise would have been. >> in 2016, pharmaceutical companies were undercut -- under attack for supposedly price gouging, one of them is mylan, the marriage -- maker of epipen. >> it is an automatic injector. >> epipen is for life-threatening allergic responses.

>> a really bad allergic reaction, you can stuff that emergent -- that reaction pretty quickly. >> they have gone from $200 for a two pack two $600 for a two pack in about five to six years. >> we have been buying epipen for decades ever since they came out, we have been carrying epi-pens. we used to spend a couple hundred dollars to outfit the whole department was epipen's and we are spending all this and 100 -- $350 apiece. medical control authority designed a special study where we could train all of our basic emt's and medical first responders how to give epinephrine the old-fashioned way. we draw it up and injected as opposed to the easy epipen. other counties want to model our system. and create their own studies in their own county to save a significant cost. >> him and he that does not have the money, they're going to use an old one, they will not have

the ability to have one if someone needs that product. >> many people decided they will not carry it. the risk is not worth the reward. did not have the epipen right there i would have been dead. >> in megan lee, a student at 2016, royal oak high school experienced her first severe allergic reaction. it was her junior year prom and it turned out to have life-threatening consequences. >> i could have lost my life. it was so fast. ms. powell, an administrator was holding my hand. telling me it was ok. we were contacting our parents. >> megan came to where the administrators were sitting and indicated she had been having allergy issues she had not had before. >> i had a headache at the dance so i took an ibuprofen. after, a little pain in my i started. >> at the time we got her a

seat, we told her we were going to contact 911 and try to get some medical assistance. >> i was out in the hallway and then my eyes started completely swelling. >> at that time we could see visible -- visibly that it was getting worse. >> i can see my eyes were completely shut. >> as we waited for ems to arrive, it was obvious the situation was worsening quickly. the swelling was becoming more and more severe and she was beginning to comment that it was beginning harder to breathe and she was beginning to cough. >> the ambulance arrived and the paramedics shot me with an epipen right away. i was about to stop breathing, it was so bad and i was taken to the hospital. >> her situation was critical. >> it is clear, epi-pens are a life-saving drug. as the price rose above reasonable levels something the issue will be [inaudible] sooner than expected.

>> with the epipen, the increase is not matching the increase in demand. it is clearly a gouging. -- create aill different route and eliminating the market for the epipen. the next drug down the line will be a life-saving drug that someone has a strangle hold on, it is going to be a different story. >> the epipen is not the only case we have seen recently. involving large price-cutting. martin shkreli invoked his fifth amendment rights on every question during this hearing. thatat did you say to pregnant woman who needs age, who needs the drug to survive? >> i invoke the fifth and respectfully take my right not to answer the question. >> after epipen there will be another price gouging issue with another drug.

some think the drug could be not can. >> narcan turns off a narcotic inside your body. that is the classic ems video where they give the guy the drug and he wakes up. narcan became necessary for just about every ems and police agencies to carry and people to have in their home. all of us in the price is skyrocketing. >> we are a capitalist society and i believe in that. at the same point in time, health care costs have skyrocketed to the point where someone has to put a cap on them somehow. >> it is an acceptable that while millions cannot afford the prescription drugs they need the $45three companies made billion. the american people should not have to go without the medication they need because congress does not have the courage to stand up to one of the most powerful lobbying operations here on capitol hill and that is the pharmaceutical industry. the time has come to say very loudly and clearly that enough

is enough. the greed of the pharmaceutical --ustry is killing americans >> to watch all the prize-winning documentaries in this year's student cam competition, visit studentcam.org. next, a look at one organization's efforts to engage legislators at town halls across the u.s. and the effect they are having. youe want to introduce do two members, the cofounders of the group known as indivisible, tried to get people out there to participate in politics especially in elections overall. and herthe cofounder husband, as her 11. >> happy to be here.